Tell me some of your earliest memories as a child!

1. I can remember being 4 years old and kicking my kindergarten teacher in the leg because she wouldn't let me go out to recess unless I drank white milk instead of chocolate like I usually drank. I had to sit in the corner for a week.
2. I was 5 years old and got my tonsils and adenoids removed and plugs in my ears and I can remember being on the gurney. I remember all the ice cream afterwards.
3. I can remember being about 6 and my neighbor got his stomach blown out by a firecracker and I was terrified of them ever since.
4. I can remember when I was a kid and all the neighborhood kids would come to our house to play because we had a treehouse, basketball goal, big trampoline, etc. There was a little boy a lot younger than all the other kids and everyone was really mean to him and used to throw cicada shells on him because he was so scared of them.

What are some things you remember as a kid?

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

When I was 2 and half I was in a hospital and had IV which I would always tear out. I remember how happy I was when mom came and a nurse was very angry and said to her: " if she tears it once again, we won't give her any more" and that gave me hope, relief and a clue of what to do.

When I was 3, 2 months from 4, we were on a vacation in Greece and met a family who had a girl around my age called Christine. Once we sat on the beach and I remember how our mothers were talking and her mother said: "Christine is so tired that she's sleeping while standing." I didn't understand how was that possible and looked if it was true.
I also remember how we walked along the beach when it was getting darker and there were long grasses where the sand ended. It looked deserted there, so we turned and walked back and that picture got stuck in my mind.

Around that time I had a habit of digging holes, putting an object into it, covering it with earth or sand and think that I tucked it in to sleep. My parents found some sea shells and I did just that with them. I'm not sure if they found them again. 😆 I don't remember this really, just from my parents' talking. But I remember I did it few months later on my aunt's wedding when there was a break in a program and we went outside to the park. I put a small cone into the ground and proclaimed "the cone will get some sleep and we'll go" This part is on the camera and my parents still find it hilarious but they don't understand the whole concept behind it. Those weren't real conifer cones so I assume they were black alder cones.

I remember when I was in the kindergarten for the first time, probably just to test because I was there only for a short time. The kids had some sort of cosplay game and were dancing to the loud music and everything was extremely overwhelming to me. I was terrified, didn't know what adults wanted from me and why and I was relieved when it ended. I could have been 3 or 4.

I remember there was some show on Cartoon Network with a male hero and once I jumped up and down on the bed screaming: "I'm *female version of that hero*" and my older brother started laughing with ridicule and said I couldn't be him because I'm a girl and I stopped and felt ashamed. I have no idea what show was it but it was the very first I saw and it ended shortly after so it could have been when I was 3 or 4.

Mardrae · 61-69, F

@CrazyMusicLover awesome memories!!!

atlantic59 · 61-69, M

@CrazyMusicLover what a fantastic recollection. Nice!👍

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@atlantic59 I also remember how me and my brother went to the same kindergarten and once coincidentally both my class and my brother's was outside and I was hanging around my brother when I suddenly noticed my class was nowhere around so they must have gone inside already and I didn't know what to do but wasn't concerned too much. 😆
From the same place, I remember the perfume one of the teachers wore. She was a nasty abusive woman that should have never been in any position that involves work with children. She was older and had long blond hair. Then there was a boy who always had nosebleeds and I remember how she was screaming at him, maybe even grabbing him harshly or something like that.
I also remember how we had a nice carpet there and someone spilled small shiny confetti stars on it and I collected them like a treasure. It was nice because I was all alone there and nobody disturbed me.